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Saturday, 3 March 2018

Vertex Steel String

Original info:
"The Steel String Clean Drive faithfully recreates the tonality and feel
of the iconic Dumble Steel String Singer amplifier in a stompbox format.
Designed alongside a real Steel String Singer (#001), this 100% analog
tone tool will do it all from Overdrive, to Fat Boost, to Compression,
to EQ shaping and more. Get the unmistakable Crystal-Clear Overdrive
and Fat Clean Tones from albums like "Texas Flood", "Venus Isle", and
"Continuum" through any clean amp platform"
You can find Bugg's PCB and schematic here.

Man, in a gear world full of bullshit artists, Mason at Vertex takes the cake. Perfect example of a pedal I would clone and sell the shit out of with no moral hang ups whatsoever. How he's still in the pedal biz after the BBE wah debacle, I'll never understand.

Very similar as far as listening to vids go. I've been playing this for a couple of hours now and i'm really enjoying it. It does have a really nice quality to it. I used SMD J201s, as always, which i think helps.

I built it up last night, its very sensitive to which transistors are used. Pn4117a in q3 and q1 made it really crunchy and the lower vgs j201 I have sounded ok. I settled with a hot set of j201 in the q1 and q2 and went with 2n5485 set in the q3 and q4 .It still gets kinda crunchy with gain dimed out but its just loud and clean(ish) for most of the gain rotation.

I'm wondering if masons using this same layout for the ultra phonix and dynamic distortion .With a few component changes its a bsiab2 and we all know that shit gets rowdy. Just a thought

See it like this: Your guitar signal goes from the input jack to the 3pdt. When the switch is off, it goes straight through the switch directly to the output jack. You bypass the whole circuit (therefore True Bypass).

When the switch is on, it takes a detour. Instead of going through the switch, your guitarsignal goes to the 3pdt, and then from the switch to the circuit. That is the IN on the circuitboard. It goes from the switch INto the circuit. After all the magic happens into the circuit, your guitarsignal has to come back to the switch. That goes through the OUTPUT wire of the circuit. In this case it comes from the volume pot. After the signal's back in the switch, there is another wire from the switch to the output jack.

So the wires from the input and output jack always go to the switch. Your signal just takes a detour or not.

on my build it has pretty mild clipping on its own with the gain maxed its like a tubescreamer at 9 oclock. definitely more of a clean boost in my experience. maybe i built it wrong? anyone get more gain than me?

Nope you're dead on. Its a clean boost. The q5 from the BSIAB really makes a difference as we see here without it makes more or less a clean ish boost even with controls dimed. I do like how the so called tone knob blends in bass. I'm keeping that for a future idea .

A number of people have asked me to do a build guide for one of these effects, but I noticed the other day that one of the guys here (timmy)...

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